Puerto Rican Independence Party

The Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) is a social democratic political party in Puerto Rico that was founded on 20 October 1946 by Gilberto Concepcion de Gracia. The PIP's goal was to create an independent Puerto Rico, and the FBI engaged in surveillance and sabotage against the PIP as a part of its COINTELPRO program during the 1960s. In 2016, the party's platform included increasing the basic teacher's salary to $3,000 a month, establishing universal healthcare, merging the House of Representatives and Senate into a unicameral legislature, and making Puerto Rico a freely-associated state.